Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

"e-Wedding Based on Multi-agent System (p. 274-275)

Kobkul Kularbphettong, Gareth Clayton, and Phayung Meesad

Abstract. Multi-agent system is continuously utilized in e-Business that want to improve responsiveness and efficiency of systems. In this paper, we propose multi-agent-system and various techniques that are Web service, ontology, and data mining techniques. The multi agent system, which constitutes the backbone of the framework, connects these pieces together and makes them perform properly. JADE is the MAS platform implemented this project. JADE is quite easy to learn and use. Moreover, it supports many agent approaches such as agent communication, protocol, behavior and ontology. This framework has been experimented and evaluated in the realization of a simple, but realistic, prototype of an e-Wedding system. The results, though still preliminary, are quite encouraging.

Keywords: multi-agent system, Web services, ontology, data mining techniques, JADE, e-Wedding.

1 Introduction

Nowadays, the explosion of Internet and the grown-up of e-Commerce have rapidly changed the traditional business operation. Electronic Commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce is the development and deployment technology of the commercial transactions electronically so as to meet the ever-growing demands of the modern life. Based on web-based business, the wedding business is one of the important businesses that it be huge and still rapidly expanding.

Booming of wedding business has also propelled the enhance of hotels, wedding studios, car hiring companies, flower shops, music, travel agencies, and even media businesses. Due to overwhelming information widely spread on internet and real world environments, it is very time consuming for couple to search appropriate information. Moreover, almost successful e- Commerce systems are still handled by humans to make the important decisions.

Therefore, with vastly developed advance mechanisms, in this paper we propose the framework of e-Wedding business applied various approaches like multiagent, web services, ontology, and data mining techniques. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses about related literatures and research works. Section 3 presents the methodologies used in this work. Section 4 implements the purposed model with a multi-agent framework. This prototype demonstrates the whole idea of adapt multi-agent in e- Wedding. Finally, we conclude the paper with future research issues in section 5."